Lifestyle & News: Outreach and Seva

About 200 youth gave out nearly 300 care packages, which contain sweaters, hats, gloves, socks along with food and toiletries, to street people. “What we’re doing here in Toronto is helping out anyone who does need our help, who needs our support.”

While families, friends and their loved ones are flooding London streets looking for Christmas gifts and soaking in the festive atmosphere, these very same streets also depict another deeply disturbing story – hundreds of homeless people who face the prospect of hunger on a bitterly cold 25 December.

Sahota says Sikhism has always been about peace and goodwill towards your fellow person, and now worries the Christian message which typifies those beliefs is fast becoming lost in favour of commercialism and Santa Claus.